Deafening Quotes

#1. A slight hiss built into a deafening roar of rushing air as the outer hatchway opened onto an empty blackness studded with tiny, impossibly bright points of light. Ford and Arthur popped into outer space like corks from a toy gun.

Douglas Adams

#2. Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth.

Regina O'Melveny

#3. Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three
She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me
Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening
Lick the blood that covers me
She's the last one standing
"Roulette"
Collateral Damage, Track 11

Gayle Forman

#4. Inside me there is a fire stocking
I burn with passion
Whilst people only see a whiff of smoke
I am told by an inner voice
The human spirit on fire is the most unrelenting force in the deafening silence of the universe.

Gabriel Iqbal

#5. Gansey turned the key. The engine turned over once, paused for the briefest of moments - and then roared to deafening life. The Camaro lived to fight another day. The radio was even working, playing the Stevie Nicks song that always sounded to Gansey like it was about a one-winged dove.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

Plutarch

#7. Dannon brought the .22 up and shot him in the temple. Carver's head bounced off the side window and Dannon shot him again, the .22 shots deafening inside the truck, but hardly audible outside. Carver slumped, his face not even looking surprised.

John Sandford

#8. The universe is a brightly colored blur of fast-moving shapes augmented by deafening noises.

Charles Stross

#9. You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

Rusty Schweickart

#10. My worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops, while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence. It was like I was the invisible man

Ashley Cole

#11. Listen to that little voice inside you. Sometimes it can whisper meaningful words of wisdom and make more sense than the deafening noise of opinions and judgements outside.

Roopleen

#12. Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle with words.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#13. The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.

Umberto Boccioni

#14. The most deafening sound in all creation, is the sound of absolute silence.

Taylor Schake

#15. I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties
feminism and multi-culturalism
come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.

Theodore Dalrymple

#16. The day she clips her way out of her cocoon, the only sound she plans to hear is a deafening cheer.

Nikki Grimes

#17. On a small planet where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening orderly beat-sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, and artist, a scribbler-sometimes the beat is changed by one person at a time.

Mary E. Pearson

#18. If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

Desmond Tutu

#19. The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.

Gerard De Nerval

#20. When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

Margaret Landon

#21. In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.

Ann Weems

#22. The silence was deafening, pressing more heavily on Hollyleaf's ears than the stones that pinned her to the cold floor.

Erin Hunter

#23. As they began to tie me, I wanted to yell out, to release some of my fear that way, but I held it in. Imogen wouldn't be that far from here yet, and I didn't want her to know what was about to happen.
If it was possible to scream on the inside, though, I was, and the sound of it was deafening.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#24. A gigantic crowd of one million persons was gathered on the Maifeld to hear the two fascist dictators speak their pieces. Mussolini, orating in German, was carried away by the deafening applause - and by Hitler's flattering words.

William L. Shirer

#25. My love for Sherry had been a shout across the silent night. Standing back here, in this town with her, was like being in a canyon. That shout became an echo, and that love sounded like a deafening never-ending roar.

Jeannine Allison

#26. If you listen closely, silence can be deafening.

Truth Devour

#27. The detonation was deafening, the blast a bruised gout of flame that drove back the airborne sand and the wind carrying it, and flung the attackers and their mounts like a god's hand, backward onto the road and off the sides.

Steven Erikson

#28. It was hell on Earth - in Canada, of all places. The noise was nearly deafening. It sounded like the end of the world.

Nick Pobursky

#29. It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

William Dean Howells

#30. This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was postiviely deafening.

J.M. Barrie

#31. What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

Marianne Williamson

#32. My heart pounded against my chest, competing with the deafening absence of sound in the air. I'd never known silence like this.

Tracy Lane

#33. The wall of silence that had instantaneously sprung between us was strong, deafening. I could not concentrate, having a sudden surge of emotions about all relationships being mawkish and pointless.

Kavipriya Moorthy

#34. I hate holidays because it's the quietest; it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.

Questlove

#35. When Taft gives way to his (anger), one reporter observed, it is to inflict a merciless thrashing upon its victim, for whom thereafter he has no use whatsoever. With Roosevelt is a case of powder and spark; there is a vivid flash and a deafening roar, but when the smoke is blown away, it is the end.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#36. A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,

Bernie Krause

#37. The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell.
I DON'T BELIEVE IN FAERIES!

Jim Butcher

#38. The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

Corazon Aquino

#39. The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

Barry Humphries

#40. The entire mass of people before the palace erupted in a deafening roar. And then, as one, they lunged forward.

Terry Goodkind

#41. So if ketosis is so desirable, then why has there been such deafening silence or even fierce negativity on the subject from health authorities?

Eric C. Westman

#42. His life was a festival of excess that could not be contained. Deafening music, eye-popping bright colors, sugar added to almost everything he ate. Quinn's life was a bullet in a barrel ready to explode.

Neal Shusterman

#43. Our silence is deafening and deadly.

James Brown

#44. The lion was quite close to him now - but a few paces intervened - he crouched, and then, with a deafening roar, he sprang.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#45. The clouds behind the castle darkened and rolled, embracing the mountain and the white towers. And as the princess became more animated, the clouds rolled faster and faster. They twisted and deepened in color until a deafening crack sliced through the air.

Brittney Joy

#46. I'm sure you're used to the deafening sound of underwear hitting the floor every time you enter the room.

Penny Reid

#47. Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

Kristina McMorris

#48. Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror.

Mike Yaconelli

#49. It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

Helen Thomas

#50. Justice can readily do her job blindfolded; she cannot function gagged and deafened, least of all when the means of gagging and deafening her are not remarked.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#51. Then I looked out onto the horizon myself and realized that loss is the same wherever you go: overwhelming, inexorable, deafening. How resilient human beings are that we can learn slowly to carry on when we are left all alone, left to fill the void as best we can. Or disappear into it.

Jennifer Ryan

#52. The Soletaken was sundering the barrier, its hungry roar deafening in its reverberations.

Steven Erikson

#53. The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

Sebastian Faulks

#54. One's silence can be deafening indeed,but it's also quite satisfying once in a while to actually hear one's thoughts just to reassure a presence.

Will Leamon

#55. Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want another.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. Silence is a time of reflection to bring peace and meaning to your life, and to those around you. This deafening quiescence will mean different things to different people but if they listen carefully, they will understand...

Virginia Alison

#57. Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.

K.L. Toth

#58. If actions speak louder than words
I'm the most deafening noise you've heard
I'll be that ringing in your ears
That will stick around for years

Touche Amore

#59. The sound of silence was deafening.

M.J. Porter

#60. Trying to understand her teenage daughter's behavior was like trying to listen to a recording of a symphony whose volume vacillated unpredictably from barely audible to deafening. She couldn't hear the music, and all she wanted to do was leave the room.

Sonja Yoerg